AI for Mining — Haul-Truck Proximity, Slope Stability, PPE & Dust

Challenges

Five fronts where unsafe acts, unsafe conditions and poor practices slip past on a live mine, and why CCTV watched by people alone cannot keep up in a pit that never sleeps.

A · Personnel & PPE acts

Respirator A bare-headed worker without a hard hat among colleagues wearing helmets on a construction site

No respirator in dust

Hi-vis

No hi-vis in haul-truck area

Bench edge A worker at the unprotected edge of a high concrete slab without a fall-arrest harness

Worker too close to pit edge

B · Pit & plant conditions

Conveyor fire Early-stage fire with small flames and smoke beginning among stacked site materials

Conveyor belt fire & smoke

Refuge

An emergency exit doorway blocked by stacked boxes and debris

Blocked refuge chamber

Diesel

An oil and water spill spreading across a concrete factory floor

Diesel & slurry spill

C · Haul trucks, plant & zones

Haul truck A forklift operating close to a pedestrian worker inside a warehouse

Haul-truck & pedestrian proximity

Bench

An open excavation trench with no barrier or fence around it

Unbarriered bench drop-off

Suspended

Working under a suspended bucket

D · The pit monitoring gap

Pit feeds

A control room with one operator facing a large wall of many CCTV feeds

Pit feeds outpace control room

Night ops

A large industrial site at night with only a few pools of light and large dark areas

Night-shift & pit blind spots

Remote pit A single worker isolated in a remote corner of a large industrial site at dusk

Lone workers in remote pits

E · Heat, compliance & reporting

Heat

Midday heat exposure on the bench

Reporting

A cluttered site safety office desk covered with paper incident forms and clipboards

Manual shift-handover reporting

Blast gate A crowded site entrance at shift start with many workers entering at once

PPE & tag checks at the blast gate

Solutions

Every gap above has an answer below: how the AI sees your pit and plant, what it detects across haul trucks, slopes, conveyors, dust and blast zones, how alerts become action, the analytics you get, and a deployment that fits your existing cameras and Saudi data rules.

A · How the AI sees

Detection

Workers on a site each outlined by a translucent segmentation mask following their silhouette

Instance segmentation, not boxes

Pose

Pose & action recognition

PPE

A worker with the helmet and vest highlighted by separate segmentation masks for PPE detection

Per-worker PPE check

B · What it detects

A worker with helmet and vest highlighted by AI segmentation masks, unsafe-act detection

Haul-Truck & PPE Acts

Flame and smoke highlighted by an AI segmentation mask, unsafe-condition detection

Slope, Dust & Plant

Outdoor workers under harsh midday sun with a heat-stress overlay, poor-practice and compliance monitoring

Blast, Fatigue & Compliance

C · From alert to action

Real-time

A site supervisor receiving a safety alert on a smartphone

Tiered, real-time alerts

Verified

Operators in a modern safety control room verifying alerts on a video wall

Operator-verified

Intervene

A public-address speaker on a pole at a site for live talk-down warnings

On-site intervention

D · See it & prove it

Dashboard

Live operations dashboard

Analytics

A screen showing a site map with colour-coded risk heat zones

Trends & heat maps

Reporting

A tablet showing KPI gauges and charts for a safety compliance report

ISO 45001 reporting

E · Fits your site

Integration An existing CCTV camera on a building with a small edge-AI box beside it

Works on existing CCTV

Edge

Edge, hybrid or cloud

Residency

A secure on-premises server rack keeping data inside the Kingdom

KSA data residency

AI Technology

Built on data-driven video analytics, computer vision that watches live feeds and understands what it sees. The same AI runs across any input on your mine: your existing pit and plant CCTV, drones flying the highwalls, autonomous robot dogs walking remote benches, and worker-worn smart helmets, all connected into one platform and one app, and processed on-site inside the Kingdom. We keep the engine proprietary; what follows is how it works for your operation.

Any input, one platform

AI Video Analytics

The brain behind every source, computer vision analyses each frame in real time and flags haul-truck proximity, slope cracks, dust breaches, blast intrusions, fatigue and PPE gaps the moment they appear.

Existing fixed and PTZ CCTV cameras on an industrial building

Your Pit & Plant CCTV

Runs on the cameras you already operate, fixed, PTZ and thermal across the highwalls, ramps, crushers, conveyors and stockpiles, with no rip-and-replace in most sites.

A survey drone flying over an open-pit mine

Pit-Flight Drones

Survey drones carry the same AI across the highwalls, blast patterns and tailings ponds, capturing the faces no fixed camera can see.

An autonomous quadruped robot dog patrolling an industrial site

Autonomous Robot Dog

A four-legged robot walks remote benches and underground drives on its own, taking the AI into headings where fixed cameras cannot reach.

A worker wearing a smart safety helmet with an on-board camera

Smart Miner Helmet

Miner-worn helmets with an on-board camera add a first-person view, fatigue detection and lone-worker protection to the same system.

On-Site Edge AI

All analysis runs on a secure unit at your site, so footage and data stay inside the Kingdom, in line with PDPL.

A unified safety app on a phone showing every connected camera and device

One Unified App, everything connected

Every camera, drone, robot and helmet feeds a single platform and one app, one place to watch the whole site, verify alerts and act. Add a new device and it simply appears in the same view.

Integration with Your Systems

We adapt to your operation, you don't rebuild for us. The AI runs on the pit, plant and stockpile cameras you already have: a small on-site edge unit pulls the video, your cameras and VMS keep running untouched, and in most mines nothing is replaced. Built for Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 mining mandate and PDPL, with data residency kept inside the Kingdom.

Works with what you have

A mix of existing fixed and PTZ CCTV cameras on an industrial building

No rip-and-replace

In 70–80% of sites your existing cameras are reused as they are. We connect over standard RTSP / ONVIF, compatible with virtually any IP camera.

A small edge-AI appliance plugged in beside an existing network switch

Plugs in alongside

A small on-site sidecar unit pulls the camera streams. Your cameras and current VMS keep running exactly as they do today, no disruption.

A technician surveying a CCTV camera with a tablet before deployment

Survey before spend

A pre-deployment camera survey (included) checks each camera's resolution, angle and lighting, so you know exactly what qualifies before buying anything.

Connects to your monitoring systems

Milestone XProtect Genetec Security Center Hikvision / HikCentral Dahua DSS Axis Camera Station

We integrate with the leading VMS platforms used in the Kingdom, pushing events and alerts straight into the system your control room already uses. Not on the list? The edge unit also runs fully standalone over direct RTSP, no VMS required.

Camera requirements

Parameter	Minimum	Recommended
Resolution	2 MP (1080p)	4 MP or higher
Frame rate	10 fps	15–25 fps
Low light	IR / night capable	True WDR
Detail on target	head ≥ 20 px	≥ 40 px for PPE
Compression	H.264	H.265 (½ the bandwidth)

Network & footprint

Light on bandwidth, a few Mbps per 1080p camera; H.265 halves it.
Only alerts leave the edge, short event clips and metadata, never full 24/7 video.
Processed on-site, a site VPN or private APN covers remote locations; data stays in the Kingdom.
No new software for your team, the dashboard is browser-based; nothing to install.

Use Cases

The same pixel-precise AI runs across your mine — open pit, underground, plant and stockpile. Every haul-truck proximity, slope crack, PPE gap, dust breach, blast intrusion, fatigue flag and conveyor defect is outlined on your live pit and plant feeds with a segmentation mask, not a crude box, on the cameras and drones you already operate.

Haul-Truck & Vehicle Safety

AI segmentation flagging haul-truck and pedestrian proximity — Haul-Truck & Pedestrian

AI segmentation flagging light vehicle too close to a haul truck — Light-Vehicle Proximity

AI segmentation flagging a haul truck misaligned with a shovel — Shovel-Truck Misalignment

AI segmentation flagging a worker inside a haul-truck blind spot — Haul-Truck Blind Spot

AI segmentation flagging a haul truck drifting off the haul road — Off-Track on Haul Road

AI segmentation flagging two haul trucks on a collision course — Vehicle-to-Vehicle Collision

PPE & Personnel Compliance

AI segmentation flagging a miner on the bench without a hard hat — No Hard Hat

AI segmentation flagging a worker without a hi-vis vest near a haul truck — No Hi-Vis Vest

AI segmentation flagging a miner without a half-mask respirator in dusty air — No Respirator

AI segmentation flagging a worker without a dust mask at the crusher — No Dust Mask

AI segmentation flagging a miner without safety boots near heavy plant — No Safety Boots

AI segmentation flagging a worker without hearing protection near a crusher — No Hearing Protection

Slope, Bench & Ground Stability

AI segmentation flagging a tension crack across a pit bench crest — Bench-Crest Crack

AI segmentation flagging wall spalling on a highwall face — Wall Spalling

AI segmentation flagging loose rockfall above a haul road — Loose Rockfall

AI segmentation flagging water seepage on a pit wall — Pit-Wall Seepage

AI segmentation flagging an undercut bench slope — Undercut Bench

AI segmentation flagging visible slope movement on a highwall — Slope Movement

Conveyor & Equipment Condition

AI segmentation flagging a tear on a long conveyor belt — Belt Tear / Damage

AI segmentation flagging a seized idler roller on a conveyor — Seized Idler Roller

AI segmentation flagging a misaligned conveyor belt drifting on the structure — Belt Misalignment

AI segmentation flagging material jammed at a transfer point — Transfer-Point Jam

AI segmentation flagging spillage beneath a conveyor gallery — Conveyor Spillage

AI segmentation flagging glowing heat on an overheated crusher bearing — Overheated Bearing

Dust & Blast-Zone Monitoring

AI segmentation flagging a dust plume rising from a haul road — Haul-Road Dust Plume

AI segmentation flagging dust crossing a worker breathing zone — Worker in Dust Cloud

AI segmentation flagging a person entering an active blast exclusion zone — Blast-Zone Intrusion

AI segmentation flagging a haul truck entering a no-entry zone — No-Entry Zone Violation

AI segmentation flagging workers returning to the bench before the all-clear after a blast — Premature Re-Entry

AI segmentation flagging an unauthorized person in a secured pit zone — Unauthorized Personnel

Fatigue, Perimeter & Load Monitoring

AI segmentation flagging a haul-truck operator showing signs of fatigue — Operator Fatigue

AI segmentation flagging a worker lying motionless on the bench (man-down) — Man-Down in the Pit

AI segmentation flagging a breach in the mine perimeter fence — Perimeter Fence Breach

AI segmentation flagging a vehicle crossing the perimeter at night — Night Perimeter Intrusion

AI segmentation flagging an overloaded haul-truck tray above the design line — Overloaded Haul Truck

AI segmentation flagging a haul truck dumping outside the dump-box boundary — Improper Dump

Not limited to these These are our standard library, we also train custom detection classes for the hazards, equipment and processes specific to your site.

How We Do It

01

Existing CCTV cameras on a pole overlooking an active construction site

Ingest

We pull live video from your existing CCTV over RTSP and ONVIF, no new cameras in most sites

02

A compact edge GPU appliance processing video on site

Edge AI

Inference runs on a small on-site GPU appliance, so video and data stay inside the Kingdom

03

A monitor showing workers segmented by AI masks on a live site feed

Detect

A three-stage cascade segments people, PPE, plant and hazards on every frame, across a broad library of categories

04

A control-room screen showing an AI reasoning check on a flagged event

Validate

A vision-language model reasons over context to confirm or suppress each alert, killing false alarms

05

Alert

Tiered alerts reach the control room, supervisors' phones and WhatsApp within seconds

06

Confirm

For non-critical events an operator confirms with a clip and scene description before anyone is dispatched

07

Dashboard

Every camera, zone and live alert appears on one dashboard, on a control-room screen or a phone

08

An automatically generated safety report with charts and an audit trail

Report & audit

Shift and daily reports, KPIs and an immutable audit trail are generated automatically for ISO 45001 and PDPL

The Monitoring Platform

One console for the mining operations team. Overview, events, cameras, benches, zones, reports and live AI inspection, all in a single app. Every alert traces back to the camera that raised it, the bench or zone it sits in, the moment it happened, and the confidence the AI gave it. Live today at viewkeepersa.com/VisualDefectDemo/mining.

HSE app overview: safety score, hazard breakdown, hottest zones and 3D zone map

Mining Monitoring · Overview

Live AI detection: haul-truck proximity, slope cracks, dust, blast-zone intrusion, fatigue, PPE gaps
Your pit, plant and stockpile PTZ, fixed and thermal cameras on one live wall
Per-camera health and link status
Operator verify, dispatch, and false-alarm workflow
Owner-ready daily, monthly, and incident-evidence reports
Runs in the on-site control room, no foreign cloud

Platform Walkthrough — Page by Page

07 · A

Seven pages, live in our mining app today. The images below come straight from the running build. These are the same screens your pit supervisors and control-room team will open on day one.

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01 · Overview

The whole site, one screen

The mining landing page. A live safety score, PPE compliance, open violations and critical incidents run across the top, next to cameras online and mean response time. Below sits a 24-hour hazard breakdown, the hottest benches ranked, and a 3D zones map of the pit and plant.

Safety ScoreHazard BreakdownHottest Benches3D Pit Map

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02 · Events

Every violation, triaged

The working queue of mining events. Each one tagged by type (haul-truck, slope, dust, blast, fatigue, conveyor), with the camera and bench or zone that caught it, a severity, a confidence score and a status. An officer verifies, assigns or closes, and the response clock keeps the team honest.

36 Event TypesSeverity RoutingEvidence SnapshotResponse Clock

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03 · Cameras

The fleet, at a glance

Every connected camera by site and zone, with live thumbnails, online status and the detections it raised. A technician sees what needs attention before the morning round.

Live ThumbnailsPer-ZoneOnline StatusLast Event

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04 · Pit Crew

Pit-crew rules, watched

Mining-crew safety built for the Kingdom: heat-stress risk on the bench, the summer midday-work ban, PPE compliance per crew, fatigue and lone-worker flags, so the rules MHRSD audits are kept automatically across every shift.

Heat StressMidday BanCrew PPELone Worker

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05 · Pit Zones

Pit zones, drawn and enforced

Mining zones drawn on the pit plan and the 3D model: blast exclusion radii, bench drop-offs, crusher danger zones, restricted stockpiles. Each zone carries its own rules, and any intrusion shows up in Events with the bench and zone attached.

Zone Rules3D Pit ModelBlast RadiiIntrusion Link

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06 · Reports

Ready for the mining audit

Shift and daily summaries, PPE and blast-zone compliance exports, and incident evidence packs, generated automatically and exportable for ISO 45001, DMFR and regulator reviews. One click, and the record is in your inbox.

Shift SummaryBlast-Zone ExportEvidence PackISO 45001

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07 · Inspect

Point the AI at any pit scene

A live AI scan page: drop in footage or pick a camera, and the engine outlines haul trucks, slopes, conveyor belts, dust plumes and personnel on the spot. The fastest way to see the detection quality on your own pit and plant scenes.

Live ScanAny FootageInstant MasksPit & Plant